Alicia Graf Mack was a Principal Dancer with Dance Theatre of Harlem and a member of Complexions Contemporary Ballet, before joining Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 2005, where she remained until 2017 as one of its most prominent dancers. Ms. Mack graduated magna cum laude with honors in History from Columbia University and received an M.A. in Nonprofit Management from Washington University. She was a faculty member at the University of Houston and a guest artist-in-residence at Webster University in St. Louis. In 2017, Ms. Graf Mack was named as the head of the Dance Department at the Juilliard School.